Zemanek-Münster

Beadvest ·  Soudan, Dinka · ID: 3034328

Vendu 500 €

Description

coloured miniature beads, cloth, cowrie snails, good condition, metal socle;
young Dinka men are squeezed into tight corsets decorated with glass beads whose combination of colours indicates the wearer’s age group. The height of the dorsal projection is in proportion to the family’s wealth, calculated in hight of livestock.


Littérature comparée

Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie u.a., African costumes and textiles from the Berbers to the Zulus, o. O. 2008, ill. 179


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